{ Copyright (C) 1981 by Bell Laboratories, Inc., and Whitesmiths Ltd. } .NM charcount count characters in input .SY .UL "charcount" .FU .UL charcount counts the characters in its input and writes the total as a single line of text to the output. Since each line of text is internally delimited by a .UL NEWLINE character, the total count is the number of lines plus the number of characters within each line. .EG .Q1 charcount A single line of input. .S 24 .Q2